>>this studio went online the night barack obama won his first term. and now this place is going to get a redo starting monday. so we just want to give a shout-out for this crew. this place is being transformed so we will see you from a different location coming monday. the new news room. so we look forward to that. >> and we look forward to all the changes. "happening now" starts right now. >> and we begin with a fox news alert as emergency crews in florida. new reaction from first responders who witnessed the disasters. >> when i first saw it come down, i thought to myself, "why

are they doing that? why are they bringing this bridge down in the middle of the day? i guess i was in a state of shock. and i started moving closer with my vehicle and saw the vehicles crushed underneath. and this thing was a tragedy." >>news surveillance video shows the moment when the bridge came tumbling down on top of cars waiting in traffic in florida international university. there are reports that the bridge underwent a stress test before it's collapse. authorities say six people were killed, at least ten more people hurt. the body count could rise as crews continue to sift through the rubble. we will have much more for you on this terrible story in just a few minutes.

in the meantime, the trump administration slapping new sanctions on russia. good morning to you on this friday. i'm jon scott. >> we made it! >> we sure did. >> i'm melissa francis. the white house is punishing moscow for cyber attacks. >> chief intelligence correspondent catherine live with more from washington. >> thank you, jon. and good morning. they target five entities and 19 individuals, some of which were indicted last month for meddling in the u.s. election. these actions, which include freezing assets, allege that are russian proxies targeted infrastructure, including water and the electricity grid. >> i think he is sending a

message that what russia has been doing across the board is unacceptable. and a similar message is conveyed because of the targeted assassination in britain where the president stood with our allies and made it clear that we're not going to accept that. >> we're also waiting for a decision this morning from the attorney general on whether he will fire mccabe. he took the unusual step of going to main justice here in washington dc thursday to plead his case and preserve his government pension. we are told the likely outcome is that his pension will be reduced. the recommendation to terminate mccabe drew out of the independent review of the clinton email case. fox news is told that mccabe was

not forthcoming with investigators and may have deliberately misled them. mccabe testified to congress that he and the bureau are above politics. >> all right. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> now back to that deadly bridge collapse in florida. at least six were killed and ten injured yesterday when a pedestrian bridge at miami university gave way. new video capturing the moment when it happened. the university says construction crews were using an accelerated method. there are also reports that the bridge had undergone a stress test before its collapse. authorities not conforming, they said delivering closure to the families of the victims is their primary focus now. >> it's our priority, which is

the most critical thing, is to get to the victims, get to the remains of the people that are underneath that bridge. this is a tragedy that we do not want to reoccur anywhere in the united states. >> all right. joining me now is mark ash, a trance pro chief executive officer. his company does safety work nationally and florida and writes about u.s. infrastructure in his book "saving america." >>what do you think went wrong here? >> as a florida resident, it's such a tragedy. we've had two in the last month. the american people expect to be able to cross bridges. and it's just this absolute failure of government to be able to deliver projects that are safe. one of the key elements is the testing phase.

as a result, we've got grieving families in florida. it's just unacceptable to try to rebuild our infrastructure and not be able to get it right so that parents have the ability to get their kids to school safely. >>why do you say it's a failure of government? you're not blaming the construction company? >> let's agree at the end of the day we'll contract out a number of these services. but government has a responsibility to provide oversight to ensure that companies are doing these things the right way. we have oversight for water systems, even though the private sectors delivers much of it. we have oversight for food systems, even though the private sector delivers much. the same is true for transportation. the government needs to provide oversight so the american people are safe. >> you think more government is the solution to this problem of the bridge collapse? i have a tough time getting there. >> no, i'm not suggesting more

government. i'm suggesting government doing the job to ensure before they let cars go underneath a new bridge that's been in place. we can ensure that it's safe. clearly, in this situation, it's not. we can't continue to introduce either old bridges where we've got up in the northeast, for example, hundreds of thousands of people crossing bridges that the government knows is not safe and we do it every day. here we've built a new bridge and not worked to ensure it's okay to let those cars pass underneath it. that's a cornerstone of government to make sure it is safe. >> it is amazing this is the point the bridge was put up. it was put up in a day. it was brought in pieces. if you take it back to also that deadly train accident as well on the very first run. there is something very fundamental going wrong in these cases. i wish we had more time. thank you. >> you bet. >> republicans push for a recount in that pennsylvania

special congressional election. but lands margin victory over his opponent was razor thin. gop officials are claiming that voting irregularities may have given land the edge. >> i thought that the process was flawed. there were other issues that i'm just being informed about with the machines themselves. and i know there were some potential voters irregularities. >> there is still no official winner in tuesday's election. but with all precincts reporting, land is leading by more than 600 votes. still, republican officials are asking for a recanvassing of the totals. >> alternatively knew -- news from overseas. it is the first deadly aviation

crash for the u.s. military in iraq or syria since 2014. the crash happened near the syrian border. it does not appear to have been causeded by enemy fire. they're working with iraq and syrian forces to make sure foreign fighters can't move freely across the area. >> a court polled a controversial texas law banning sanctuary cities, as leaders in that state shift their focus to implementation, after the break to explain what's coming next. >> there's no defense in someone who looks like me and someone who's there mexico and doesn't have documentation. >> it's a sensible ruling from the court that just said it's right to have a law that requires the police to enforce the law.

>>a controversial ban on sanctuary cities in texas will now go into effect nearly a year after governor greg abbott signed into law. state leaders are working now on implementation and enforcement. joining us now, texas attorney general pax. i know you worked hard on this bill. you are applauding the fact that it has been given the green light in the appeals court. what do you think texans will see in terms of lifestyle improvement as a result? >> well, first off, it's a huge victory for texas and the rule of law, and it's a huge victory for safety. it gives our law enforcement the ability to protect texas citizens across the state and it stops cities from protecting illegals who have committed

criminal acts. >> but detractors say it's going to lead to discrimination. how do you answer that? >> the bill is not designed for that at all. it's designed to make sure that people here illegally who are committed crimes, they are deported and officials have to cooperate with the federal government. it also allows law enforcement to ask about immigration status. it's designed to make sure the citizens of texas are safe. >> if i'm driving in my car and weaving and a cop pulls me over and smells alcohol, he's allowed to ask if i've been drinking? why is it such a big deal that police in texas are now allowed to ask immigration status? >> why would these cities, austin, houston, dallas, el paso, san antonio sue the state? this is a bill that really is about making sure that those who

commit crimes who are here illegally, that we take care of moving them out of our state. why are these cities so protective of them? >> you're also going to be able to actually remove from office or maybe even arrest a sheriff or sheriff's official who doesn't follow the law. do you expect that's actually going to happen? >> well, we've already got complaints. i can't specifically talk about the details of those complaints. but, yes, there's civil penalties against cities or officials that do this. the potential is removal for office, which is obviously a severe penalty. and then a class a misdemeanor up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. we do care about the safety of our people. >> if biggest cities in this city fought against you on this, houston, dallas, san antonio,

austin. they can practice selective enforcement, can they not? they can just simply ignore the law, if they choose. >> i suppose there are ways around every law. wouldn't recommend that because i think the legislature will respond with further laws to try to curtail that. so ultimately i just hope that most cities will cooperate and do what they're supposed to do, which is turn over illegal who is have committed crimes to the federal government and allow them to do their jobs. >> how did we get to the place where cities and states kind of decide selectively which federal laws they want to enforce? >> i really honestly think it goes back to president obama and how he built the culture of not enforcing laws he didn't want to. if we get outside of the rule of the law and cities doing their own thing, we end up having all

kinds of problems. >> after california has declared itself a sanctuary state, it'll be interesting to watch what happens to crime rates and other things. california versus texas. >> well, we definitely know from our own statistics that we have significant crime as a result of illegals. and so what they are doing to their own citizens is unfortunate. they're going to end up with some of the consequences of higher crime rates, higher murder rates. it's just a reality. >> attorney general ken paxton from texas. thanks very much. >> thank you. have a great day. >> russia threatening retaliation over new u.s. sanctions as the trump administration targets moscow. plus, a man hunt is underway for the person who threw a boulder off an overpass, killing a

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>>fox news alert. and a big rock comes crashing down on a car in california, killing the passenger. police say someone pushed a 30-pound rock off an overpass off a freeway. it happened tuesday in pasadena. that rock landed on a

22-year-old. police believe that rock was dropped off an overpass intentionally. >> russia now planning to expand its american blacklist. the president take his first major action against moscow. >> the trump administration is accusing russia of breaching the u.s. energy grid. the u.s. is also slapping sanctions on 19 people, including the 13 russian indicted last month for election interference. >> joining me now is andy biggs. this is a really frightening story. when you talk about russians breaching the nuclear aviation and the water system. obviously, critical infrastructure. a lot of damage has been done.

does this action go far enough? >> these are very serious things the russians have done. and you're right. the critical infrastructure of everything that basically most americans lives revolve around. we have to respond. if russia had done this through some kind of a hard and physical means, we would be asking for a different response. here because it's digital, we don't seem to see it so much because we were able to thwart most of it. these sanctions are critical. we have to find the individuals and groups within the russian government. and congress is getting that authority. it's a necessary first step. it has to be aggressive. >> all right. some say it's not aggressive enough, senator mark warner. >> first of all, this is long overdue. the administration missed its deadline. and that was very disappointing. it continues to concern me.

you have the administration, there still seems to be a great reluctance from the president himself to call out russia. >> do you think that's true? do you think the president is reluctant? it did take him a little while. and perhaps this was a response to the nerve agent being used in the uk. >> i don't think he waited too long. the authority was given by congress last year. i think he was also looking at what a lot of us wanted to see, is evidence. now we have to respond aggressively. i think the sanctions are a way to go. i think that we have to project power with russia. we have to engage in harsher terms of diplomacy.

we're going to have to do more. >> but if you contrast the way that he's responded to north korea and russia, i mean obviously there are different things that you're trying to prevent there, but it is two different leaders, where somebody said basically what you just said, that you don't want to respond too strong where you escalate the situation. that's what people said to the president about north korea. he went in very harsh anyway. in that situation, it's working. but he's taken such a different approach here. do you think that's appropriate? >> yeah, i think it's appropriate. you have two different situations here. but you have two very different political leaders. you have kim jong-un, who is trying to accomplish something very different than i think that mr. putin's trying to do. so i think that the president has to take different responses. but there's no doubt we have to be very strong. and the president has to show real resolve against russia in

this particular circumstance. and i also think that you're right. we need more evidence with regard to the use of the gas poison on these folks in england. but this is really serious and we have to step up the pressure on russia. >> real quick before you go. i know that you have been very outspoken about wanting shulkin to respond. why is that? >> i think he has not demonstrated the leadership for the culture change we need. we're seeing the same problems. my own va was phoenix, the very epicenter of the crisis. things have too slowly proceeded to make them better. the other problem i would say is i can't get anything done. we have two people that this is what they do, nothing but veterans case work. and i have to intervene many times because we're not getting

the action at the local or secretary's level. >> congressman, thank you for coming on today. we appreciate it. >> well, guess what, we might soon be hearing more from stormy daniels. she's speaking out in a new interview on "60 minutes" of all places. what are the implications for president trump. plus, investigators just beginning to look into the deadly bridge collapse in miami. >> there is the possibility, the sad possibility that under the concrete there may be additional vehicles. ♪

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miami. at least six people have died and there may be more bodies buried under the rubble. as investigators begin to look into what happened and who should be responsible. >> right now we're looking at what occurred, what caused this collapse to occur and people to die. we want to get the bottom line of what occurred so we can bring closure to the families, the investigation, and so it doesn't happen again. that's the most important thing here. >> let's go live to the scene this morning. steve, welcome. >> the head of fire rescue said this is now a recovery operation. he said there's no one left alive in that 900 tons of concrete rubble behind me. no one survived at this point. right now the death toll stands

at six. that number could go up. among those six, at least one student. and the bridge collapsed at 1:30 in the afternoon during a red light. it happened so suddenly, even first responders on the scene were shocked. >> it was chaotic at first. i crawled underneath the bridge and got yelled at by fire and rescue like, "what are you doing? there's nothing you can do." and i realized there was nothing i could do. the cars were about four foot high. that's how crushed they were. it's terrible to see there's people you can't get to and the major loss of life. one of our officers was able to assist the vehicle on the end. the driver was crushed but we were able to get the passenger out of that vehicle. >> this is a slow-ing moving investigation in part because some of that concrete behind me is still unstable. it may take up to one week to

find out why this bridge collapsed and who's responsible. melissa. >> just such an awful story, steve. thank you. >> the cbs news is planning to air an interview with stormy daniels, according to the washington post. her real name, stephanie clifford. she claims she had an affair with president trump in 2006. the president denies that. >> what we've been clear for sometime now that ms. clifford wants a platform in which she can tell her story unrestrained, can tell the american people the truth about what happened, not just about the relationship with the president, but also about the attempts by the president and mr. cohen to muzzle heard.

>> should cbs give her the platform? >> joining us, katie glick. katie, are you surprised that a program like "60 minutes" is going to put an adult porn star on? >> this is an issue that's been in the news for several weeks. the reality is that this is a story that deals with the ultimate public figure with the president. this is a distraction that's been hanging over the white house for several weeks. if she goes on air, it's going to add more fuel to that fire. no doubt that is a really big story involving perhaps our most prominent citizen. >> vince, public service or ratings stunt? >> it's tabloid fodder.

stormy daniels and cbs and every other outlet covering this have a shared interest. they want to make a lot of money. daniels has been touring the country at strip clubs all over the place. i've seen story after story after story of what that's like. and meanwhile, she's benefitting big time off of all of the coverage they're providing her in media because they see it as an opportunity to really hit trump and they think it'll hurt him. >> is there any hypocrisy here, katie? the media could be doing any other story in the world on march 25th. >> i don't know about hypocrisy there. again, this is a story involving at the president of the united states. certainly the house has denied this, but no doubt, in storylines on this front have been playing out since the

campaign. and we are seeing additional allegations come forth now. >> there are a lot of past presidents who are probably grateful they didn't get this kind of scrutiny. >> that's true. and in light of that, i think what we should look closely at is what are american voters interested in and what effect does any particular story have on the average american voter? this one is in the realm of tabloids because i don't think at the end of the day it does have much of an effect on the american voter. >> and worth pointing out that the incident she says supposedly happened ten years ago. i want to turn your attention to another issue that caught our attention. that news surveillance video just released of the deadly school shooting in parkland, florida. it shows the resource officer standing outside the high school while the shooting is going on

inside. this comes after media outlets petitioned authorities to make it public. now that it's public, what did we learn? >> it certainly confirms what we've been hearing about his reluctance to go into the school. we know that was his job, according to authorities there, and it certainly adds more fuel to the argument that you're hearing, especially from republicans, that before you can talk about more sweeping measures as it relates to gun control, you have to take a look at what happens on the ground there. and this adds into that even as of course we are seeing action from other republicans including and especially in florida to actually take steps towards tightening gun control measures. >> there's always the argument that the more you run these pictures of terrified students and in this case a security guard, a trained deputy who's frozen in place, the more you glorify the attackers doing

this. what about that here? >> well, that's clearly a challenge. and also the media i think has to definitely do some soul searching on how they want to cover these things. it's hard to suppress even the name of a shooter getting out in light of the world we live in with social media. i do think though that there should not be much argument about this notion that he was caught standing outside. this is a part of errors. there are dozens of errors the government made leading up to that shooting. and there really should be an investigation of that. >> a football coach inside gave his life trying to protect his student and a trained deputy outside stays outside. martha mccallum had ben shapiro wednesday night.

listen. >> the media has put forward this message and they've been doing this for years but it's really axccelerataccelerated. putting forward this message that if you disagree with them on gun control that you don't care about the kids. and now they're activating these kids. >> are some of the students being used here? >> listen, i don't speak for every member of the media, but the reporters that i know are very committed to telling this story as completely and fairly as possibly from every angle. the students are the ones making news. when you see students sort of being at the center of big policy fights, as we did in florida, we're going to cover that. and as my colleague just did, when we see students who are opposed to stricter gun control coming to washington, having meetings with the president and other lawmakers, offering that

perspective, we're going to cover that as well. i can tell you that folks are very committed to getting right a story that is very sensitive and emotional. >> vince, very quickly. >> the press broadly have had trouble with this because they've failed to disclose with any intensity the notion that this is supported by all of the major liberal organizations around the country. this is specifically a gun control play. it's connected to all sorts of liberal organizations, including some of the wreerd -- weird ones. the harry potter alliance is included. what adults are involved? because many were. >> vince and katie, good discussion. thank you both. >> thank you. >> new u.s. sanctions issued against russia as punishment for meddling in the presidential election. what american lawmakers are saying about it.

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>>now to the trial of the widow of the pulse nightclub shooter. she's accused of helping her husband plan the attack. in court the jury was shown graphic body camera footage from that night. [gunshots] >>thanks both of you for being here. there are some observers that

say that putting this video footage out there right in the early stages of the trial actually helps the defense because the immediate shock of it wears off on jurors in the coming week. >> most trial lawyers will tell you that trials are lost and won in the opening statements. it's brilliant that the prosecutors put it front and center. this is what we're talking about, ladies and gentlemen. we're talking about carnage, body, blood, gunfire, these poor 49 people that were massacred that night. it's absolutely brilliant. and frankly it sets the tone for the entire trial. >> she is charged with aiding and abetting. you don't have to load the gun or put the bullets in the trunk of the car, anything like that. you can do some pretty minor stuff and still be convicted. >> correct. you have to be what they call

associated with the crime. that's what the case law talks about. the government has to show that she knew this was going to happen and then took some small step further in that. there's allegation that she drove him around in the middle of the night with her kid in the car, casing out places to hit. so i think once the government shows she knew what was going to happen, it's not a big leap to go. you show this early but then that's it. because you're right, juries do become desensitized to that stuff. it's up, done, and now you're finished with it. >> when the police knocked on her door that night, she never asked them what had happened to him. isn't that kind of a statement in and of itself without saying anything? >> that's a brilliant question. absolutely. it's certainly very puzzling. you're there with your toddler son and suddenly the police come to the door and not a question

like, "where is my husband?" it's that kind of ridiculousness and the inconsistencies and when she spoke to the authorities will ultimately sink her. >> her attorney said she's just a simple mother with a low iq that married a monster. is that enough? >> no. that's what she has to do. the jury has seen that. but the evidence against her i think undermines that and ultimately will sink her. >> well, we will continue to keep an eye on this case. thank you. >> thanks so much, jon. >> thanks for having me. >> russia threatening retaliation after the u.s. issues new sanctions against moscow. what does this mean with relations between the two countries? >> we know they meddle with our

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>>whoo, it is friday, isn't it? >> tgif. >> oh, baby, the clock is ticking on mccabe. putting his entire pension at risk after decades of service. and should mccabe be fired? >> hmm. plus, just days after a cohost on "the view" publicly apologizes. they're at it again, this time making fun of the president. when will they ever learn this sort of thing will come back to bite you. >> top of the hour.

>> russia says it will respond in kind to new sanctions from the u.s.. the russia minister saying they will add more to the blacklist. and cyberer attacks targeting critical u.s. infrastructure. the decision comes as america joins its european allies in blaming russia for a nerve agent attack on british soil. graham applauding the move and calling for more action. >> we can't agree on much of anything in the senate. but 98% voted for these sanctions. and up until today, they had not been implemented by the administration. clearly the assassination in great britain had an effect here. i'm very pleased, but we need to do more. >> joining me is foreign policy

fellow at the independent women's forum. do we need to do more? >> yes, in fact, we need to get beyond tit for tat. we need to recognize what's needed -- remember when president obama mocked romney? we need to bring back that playbook because this is a matter of major deterrents now needed. we can't keep responding to each attack. we've got to draw lines that putin really doesn't dare cross. >> you say there are a lot of things about him and his actions right now that are really hair raising. like what? >> i just came away from a conference here in manhattan on putin, talking about his rise. and when you look at the trajectory, the making of this dictator, the move into the middle east and syria, the sort of territorial acquisition where he can poise right now with a

built-up modernized military in a great position to grab the baltic countries before nato could react. we have real threats in the making. and we need to step up not just with sanctions, but sanctions won't take care of it. >> no, especially it's really alarming if you look at -- it's one thing when we talk about russia to sow discord and get us to fight with each other. it's another when you're talking about tampering with the water supply or our energy grid. that could cause many lives, especially when you couple it with the action of the nerve action on uk soil. put all those things together, this is an incredible threat. and it doesn't seem like the response of sanctions would be enough for something like that. what would be more? >> one thing that would be more is -- it's a tall order, but here's where we need to be thinking, is getting the russians back out of syria. get rid of the opening that

president obama gave them. come on into the middle east. they need to be out. we need to be focusing again -- we left them take it. we need to be calling a lot more attention to the things they're doing, publicize what his cronies have salted away, don't just sanction them. let's actually hear real expansions of what's -- explanations of what's going on. but the big picture is it's not just russia. it's sort of a rising axis. china, russia, north korea, iran. we need to draw lines. >> all right. we're out of time. thank you. very scary stuff. we'll be right back.

>> so i'm flipping through my "wall street journal." what do i read on page a-13 in the art of the steel tariffs by melissa francis.

>> my first and probably only editorial. very sweet. >> it's very interesting and informative. >> thank you. >> you can get the dead tree copy of the "wall street journal" or read it online. thanks for joining us. >> "outnumbered" starts now. >> time is running out for attorney general jeff sessions to decide whether to fire fbi director andrew mccabe who is set to retire sunday. the move would put mccabe's entire pension at risk after decades of service. sessions has until 5:00 p.m. today to make his decision. this is "outnumbered." i'm sandra smith. we have harris faulkner, lisa booth, and fox news analyst, mar marie hearth is here. and here's mark